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Hello. I recently graduated from a large state school with a bachelor's in physics and a minor in nuclear engineering. I ended up with a solid GPA. I didn't really have a plan for myself all throughout college, which I regret now. I started off with the intention of going to grad school, but I...

Actually, I checked the answer to the problem and what I got is correct, so I guess it was not related to the actual radius. I solved it like this: 11.1s/(3600*24)s=x/360, and so the angle was 11.1/240 degrees. There was a right triangle with hypotunese r+1.7, and a leg r. The angle between...

Thank you, that pic helped me right away and I got it. I never thought about the sun's rays hitting the Earth, I tried to picture a beach and looking west and that way could not account for the Earth rotating. Thanks so much. Is the answer 5217957.989m? I got that but that is not the radius of...

Homework Statement Suppose that, while lying on a beach near the equator watching the Sun set over a calm ocean, you start a stopwatch just as the top of the Sun disappears. You then stand,elevating your eyes by a height H=1.70 m, and stop the watch when the top of the Sun again disappears. If...